Dana Milbank: The GOP misfires on food stamps

5:51 PM,
Jul. 12, 2013

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Dana Milbank

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, a committee chairman and the man who led House Republicans to their majority in 2010, was explaining why he and his colleagues decided to drop the food stamp program from the farm bill.

"What we have carefully done is exclude some extraneous pieces," he said. ...